folk – English noun declension

English noun forms of folk

Noun: folk
Singularfolk
Pluralfolks

Sample Sentences

  • The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. [1878-1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People:]
  • We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish! [1907, Race Prejudice, Jean Finot, page 251]
  • There were a lot of folk in the streets.
  • Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun.
  • “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]” [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • I need to call my folks back home.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *fulkazder.
3. Proto-Germanic *fulką
4. Proto-West Germanic *folk
5. Old English folc
6. Middle English folk
7. English folk
8. From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
9. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulk, West Frisian folk, Dutch volk, German Low German and German Volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Faroese and Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk. See: Middle English Nouns 'folk', Old English Nouns 'folc', Dutch Nouns 'volk'.

Verbs referencing "folk"

Finnish Nouns folk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns folk, Romanian Nouns folk, German Nouns Volk, Russian Nouns полк.